Hogtown Smoke

First visit. Nice reboot of the old Vicar's Vice location. Welcoming staff and layout. Good variety of meats as meals, sandwiches or platters. The brisket was our table's favourite. Was a late lunch for us so a few of the other meats were a little dry but that's to be expected. Bold flavour from both smoking and seasonings were delicious. We'll definitely be back!

We ordered takeout meals at 6:15pm on Saturday night. Both the beef brisket sandwich and the Hogatha sandwich was actually cold to the touch. Not even room temperature. I had to warm the food in the microwave just to eat it. There wasn't much sauce on the beef brisket sandwich. The meat portion was okay I guess, but I expected more than cold beef served on a cold bun with little flavour for a $20 sandwich. I'd love to give them another chance, but it's hard to justify.Onion rings were hot, but very salty. Maybe that's how they make it though. Not expecting perfection, but a warm meal is a requirement when paying for food. Edit: The cold jalapeno macaroni salad was tasty.

I really wanted to love this place, but there were some issues I couldn't overlook. The brisket was very dry, almost like beef jerky. I mentioned this to the waitress who said they would notify the kitchen, but I never received any explanation, discount, or otherwise. It's also very expensive. Luckily there was a nice assortment of house made BBQ sauces of varying spice levels that was delicious and I could drench everything in. For a $50 meal I'll be going elsewhere.

My mom, sister and I, with my newborn, Went there for Mother?s Day lunch at 1pm. I was a little concerned as the parking lot was empty and restaurant as well, however I was told it usually gets busy for dinner. The food was delicious! We ordered one of their shareable platters $46), my mom doesn?t eat pork so they replaced sausage and pork ribs with chicken wings and beef brisket; in addition to the half chicken. I got to try out several of their home made hot sauces whichwere fresh and excellent! We ordered a beef rib one huge heavy bone only which comes at a minimum of 21oz at $2.50 per ounce, very very pricy with not much meat! But it was so good none the less. The sides were good but small portions.The server was really nice she spent a lot of time with us. To top off our experience, a really unexpected pleasant surprise happened, one of the male customers paid for our meal which was $120. We are so grateful for such a gesture, itreally was a breath of fresh air to know there are still nice people in this world!

Lunch was very disappointing, had high hope. Ordered the brisket, $21, I asked if it came with sides they said Cole slaw ... I order Mac cheese to be safe ???? So, I couldn 't care about the side , I ordered Brisket wooo!! Ya, the few strips of meat that came on the plate was cold. Not left under a heat lamp and no longer warm, out of the fridge nuked for maybe 10 seconds, and would have cooled my room temp water ???? Mac cheese Just wait to you get home. Hopingthey were training someone in the back, still no excuse for that. $70+ tab with a cpl pops and a poutine. 2 stars, bbq sauce was tasty.